Former Nigerian Minister of Environment, Amina Mohammed has
been sworn-in as the Fifth United Nations (UN) Deputy Secretary-General on
Tuesday at the UN Headquarters in New York.
The UN Secretary General, António Guterres, after
administering the Oath, said: “I am very, very proud that you accepted to join
our team.”
In her first engagement, Amina Mohammed declared open the
2017 Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Segment on Operational Activities for
Development.
Amina Mohammed resigned from Nigerian Federal Executive
Council on the 24th of February 2017. Previously, Amina Mohammed was a key
player in the Post-2015 development process, serving as the Special Adviser to
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on Post-2015 development planning.
In this role, she acted as the link between the
Secretary-General, his High Level Panel of Eminent Persons (HLP), and the
General Assembly’s Open Working Group (OWG), among other stakeholders.
Prior to this position, Mohammed served as Founder and CEO
of the Center for Development Policy Solutions and as an Adjunct Professor for
the Master’s in Development Practice program at Columbia University.
Previously, she acted as the Senior Special Assistant to the
President of Nigeria on the Millennium Development Goals after serving three
presidents over a period of six years.
In 2005, she was charged with the coordination of Nigeria’s
debt relief funds toward the achievement of the MDGs. From 2002-2005, Mohammed
coordinated the Task Force on Gender and Education for the UN Millennium
Project.
Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima was at the UN
headquarters in New York to witness the swearing in of the former Minister of
environment.
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